Daniel Sirtes

Daniel Sirtes
Inselspital, Universitätsspital Bern · Department of Paediatrics

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The internal homogeneity of research disciplines in subject categories (SC) of the Web of Science database (WoS) regarding their publication and citation practices is an essential precondition for the field-normalization of citation indicators. This imperative of underlying homogeneity seems not to be met throughout all categories, as has been show...
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Craver’s (2007) account of explanation in neurobiology offers one of the most sophisticated explications of the mechanism concept. This paper argues that despite groundbreaking advances in understanding mechanistic explanation, serious challenges remain. The first goal of this paper is to address the notorious problem of explanatory relevance conce...
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Purpose: The research focuses on the development of definitional standards for research information as a wicked problem. A central solution strategy for such problems, increasing transparency by argumentation visualisation, is being evaluated. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative formal content analysis is used in order to examine whether the...
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Seit August 2008 befinden sich in der Thomson Reuters (TR)-Zitationsdatenbank „Web of Science“ Funding Acknowledgements. Funding Acknowledgements sind in wissenschaftlichen Artikeln vermerkte Angaben über die finanzielle Förderung der Forschung, die bei der Erstellung der Publikation verwendet wurde. Mit diesen Angaben in der Datenbank lassen sich...
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Since August 2008 the Web of Science database includes funding acknowledgements information. To date no study has been conducted concerning the data quality of these entries. In this paper, we show the vast array of problems emerging if one wishes to unify all funding organization entries of a large and diverse funding body such as the German Resea...
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We introduce two novel ways to capture the impact benefits two countries receive from collaborations. For both indicators we compare the value of a specific collaboration with the value of average collaborations for each of the countries. As we restrict our analysis to only two-country collaborations and calculate the values for each scientific fie...
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Aims and Scope "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." This collection of essays addresses a philosophical problem raised by the first clause of these famous words. Does each signatory of the Declaration of Independence hold these truths individually, do they share some kind of a common attitude, or is there a s...
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This paper strengthens and defends the pluralistic implications of Einstein's successful, quantitative predictions of Brownian motion for a philosophical dispute about the nature of scientific advance that began between two prominent philosophers of science in the second half of the twentieth century (Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend). Kuhn promoted...

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